Two Worlds

TWO WORLDS,

TWO PLANS

THE NOTION OF “TOTALITARIANISM”

AND TOTALITARIAN ART

What is this,

and How do we get here?:

- INFLUENTIAL GERMAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL

THEORIST, LIVED THROUGH EARLY NAZI REGIME,

FLED TO FRANCE, THEN TO AMERICA

- Colonial vs. Continental expansionism:

two contexts of racism and imperialism

- PAN-SLAVISM AND PAN-GERMANISM

- SUBORDINATION OF ALL INTERESTS

TO THE WILL OF THE STATE

- TOTALITARIANISM VS AUTOCRACY:

COMPLETE CONTROL OF EVERYDAY LIFE

DESIRE FOR WORLD DOMINATION

VS.

POLITICAL CONTROL AND SUPPRESSION

I.E. ITALY ???

„DIE ELEMENTE UND URSPRÜNGE

TOTALER HERRSCHAFT“

Political

Message

Subordinate to

Artistic

Conveyance

“Mainly Art

not Politics”

Obfuscation,

Superficiality

TWO SOCIETIES,

TWO THEORIES

Rejuvination and

National Socialism

TWO SOCIETIES,

TWO THEORIES

GAINING CONTROL

CONSTRUCTION

AND RECONSTRUCTION

Infrastructure Expansion,

National Defense

INDUSTRIALIZATION

REARMAMENT, AND DUAL-USE

FOREIGN OUTLOOK

“CLASS” AND

“CLASSLESSNESS”

Corporatism – Corporate subordination

and/or marriage to concerns of state

Private

property

retained,

unless it is

challenge to

State authority

“Petit-

Bourgeois”

Or

“Kleinburger”

THE LEADER

THE LEADER

THE LEADER

THE GOAL

THE GOAL

THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST MAN

THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST MAN

WOMAN AND FAMILY

IN NAZI GERMANY

THE SOVIET MAN

THE SOVIET MAN

THE SOVIET WOMAN

THE SOVIET WOMAN

THE FASCIST MENACE

THE FASCIST MENACE

THE BOLSHEVIK THREAT

THE BOLSHEVIK THREAT

THE UNIFORM

“HIGH ART”

“HIGH ART”

“HIGH ART”

“HIGH ART”

“HIGH ART”

“HIGH ART”

“HIGH ART”

HISTORICAL INSPIRATION

THE GLORIOUS PAST

TOTALITARIAN FILM

TOTALITARIAN FILM

THE MUSIC

Nazi German

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9zfHpiS4Ug

(les Preludes – deutsche wochenschau)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy0fhvTLNlY&feature=related

(when the soldiers march)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip4FtVxrkFg

(pariser einzugsmarsch – paris 1940)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Bd14eUhrU&feature=related

(beethoven’s 9th on hitler’s birthday)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUsePoATbrU&feature=related

(lili marlene – ww2 version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYim85Z5Njk

(if war comes tomorrow)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy8mxh0P63M&feature=related

(the sacred war)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y68NhY6b4hk

(blue handkerchief)

Right Wing rhetoric - the obama poster

increases In state power

broadest “socialism”:

welfare in general, language of class struggle,

any state imposition on market, etc.

may re-create this phenomenon

Left wing rhetoric – the end of history? specter of “inverted totalitarianism”:

politics, arts, life dominated by

the market and corporation

a “Lazy” notion: too broad, non-specific,

ignores important differences

TOTALITARIANISM: MODERN INTERPRETATIONS